An administrator wants to utilize Network Visualization to monitor the physical and logical network on the Nutanix cluster. The first-hop switch has LLDP enabled. The network switch information is still not being displayed.What is causing this problem?

SNMP is not configured properly.

The ISL between switches is not configured.

SNMP is not configured properly.

The cluster is using RDMA-enabled NICs.

An administrator is migrating 5MB shares from a third-party platform to Nutanix Files with the following characteristics:• Shares contain user profile directories• DFS-N will be usedHow should the administrator create target shares for this migration?

Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

Create multiple general purpose shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.

Create multiple distributed shares and distribute migrated data as evenly as possible.

Create standard shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

Create distributed shares with multiple top-level directories and distribute migrated data.

An administrator manages the following two Nutanix AOS 5.15 cluster environment:• Corp-cluster-01• Corp-cluster-02The VM images must be available only on Corp-cluster-01, but cannot be checked out to cluster Corpcluster- 02. The images also cannot be checked out to any other clusters that are registered with Prism Central in the future.Which two configuration settings must the administrator choose when creating the image placement policy that satisfies the stated requirements? (Choose two.)

Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-01 as the target cluster

Set the policy enforcement to Hard.

Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-01 as the target cluster

Set the policy enforcement to Soft.

Set the policy enforcement to Hard.

Create an image placement policy that identifies cluster Corp-cluster-02 as the target cluster.

A customer has a Nutanix cluster with 10Gb connectivity via switch fabric extenders. The administrator receives NCC health check errors of latency greater than 200ms.Which action should the administrator take to resolve the NCC errors?

Replace the switch fabric extenders with 10G line rate switches

Upgrade NCC and increase the CVM memory by 4Gb

Add 2 additional 10G uplinks from the switch fabric extenders per node

Upgrade NCC and increase the vCPU of the CVM

For several days, an administrator notices the following alerts:• CVM NIC Speed Low Warning Alerts• Warning Alerts of CVM NIC not performing at optimal speed• CVM is disconnected from the network Critical Alert• Network Visualization page shows excessive dropped packets on CVM/Host Which steps should be taken to determine which problem should be addressed first?

• Verify Host/CVM connectivity on the Network Visualization page• Use to verify the bridge and bond configuration• Review alerts/events page for the CVM disconnected error

• Access the Hardware Page to verify resources are available• Analyze ail CVM Speed Alerts in the Alerts/Events page• Analyze output for the network and interface properties and connectivity issues

• Verify Host/CVM connectivity on the Network Visualization page• Use to verify the bridge and bond configuration• Review alerts/events page for the CVM disconnected error

• Review Alerts page for NIC speed alerts and alert timing• Analyze the genesis.out log file for process failures• Assess the NIC properties in the Network Visualization > Host Properties page

• Restart networking services on the CVM• Determine the current configuration of the affected CVM via output• Access the Alerts/Events page for the CVM network connection failures

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator configures Active Directory authentication as shown in the exhibit. Upon finishing setup, users are not able to log in.What configuration change should be made to fix this issue?

Change the plct from 389 to 636D Change the Domain to use an IP rather than a name

Change the Directory URL to use an IP rather than a name

Change the plct from 389 to 636D Change the Domain to use an IP rather than a name

In a Nutanix cluster, a Protection Domain contains 50 entities that are replicated to a remote Single Node Replication Target.The current schedule configuration is as follows:• Repeat every 6 hours• Local Retention Policy 1• Remote Retention Policy 8• Starting time 12 amAt 8 am on Monday, the administrator discovers that a protected VM is corrupted. The latest good state was Sunday 2 pm. The administrator needs to maintain current protection.Which strategy should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

From the local site, retrieve the correct remote snapshot, then restore the VM locally.

From the Remote site, activate the Protection Domain, then re-protect the entity.

From the Remote site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot

From the local site, retrieve the correct remote snapshot, then restore the VM locally.

From the local site, restore the VM from the local snapshot by selecting the correct snapshot.

A customer with a four-node RF2 cluster is adding application VMs to their system. After adding these VMs, the Prism dashboard shows 81% storage utilization.What is the consequence of running the cluster at 81% storage utilization?

The cluster is not resilient in the storage fabric

The customer has the ability to add more VMs up to the 100% storage utilization.

There is available capacity in the storage fabric and the cluster is resilient.

Node failure is imminent due to storage utilization.

The cluster is not resilient in the storage fabric

A company needs to replicate their VMs to a remote site and must have an RPO of less than 1 hour.When creating a protection domain, what should an administrator do to meet this requirement?

Enable Async Replication with an RPO of 60 minutes

Enable Near-Sync Replication with an RPO of 15 minutes

Enable Entity Sync on the designated VMs

Enable Availability Zones and send the VM to multiple targets

An administrator needs to replace the self-signed certificate on a cluster. Which two requirements must be met as part of the process? (Choose two.)

The signed, intermediate and root certificates are chained.

The imported files for the custom certificate must be PEM encoded.

The cluster administrator must restart the interface gateway.

The signed, intermediate and root certificates are chained.

The existing certificate must be deleted prior to replacement.

The imported files for the custom certificate must be PEM encoded.

An administrator needs to evaluate if the existing configuration of Protection Domains meets the specified corporate recovery policy for SQL Dat a. The corporate policy requires that all SQL Servers be recoverable at the DR site within 30 minutes, and must result in a maximum of 60 minutes of data loss. SQL data must be required.The protection domain is configured as follows:• Application consistent snapshots are enabled• The SQL server VMs are assigned to the Protection Domain as their own Consistency Group• The Protection Domain schedule is configured as snapshots taken every 90 minutes from 7 am until 8 pm What must be changed to meet the required policy?

Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes

Revise the schedule tc be 15 minutes

Revise the schedule to be 60 minutes

Revise the schedule to be 30 minutes

Revise the schedule to be 45 minutes

An administrator is monitoring the Nutanix v5.15-based AOS cluster performance logs and notices that a SQL server VM is greatly exceeding its intended maximum IOPS. The administrator has confirmed that a QoS policy was previously created for the group of VMs this server is a member of.What are two reasons that this VM would exceed its maximum configured IOPS from the QoS Policy?(Choose two.)

The VM was not created as an AFS virtual machine.

The SQL Server VM has volume groups attached.

The VM is missing the required snapshot needed to implement the QoS Policy.

The VM was not created as an AFS virtual machine.

The SQL Server VM has volume groups attached.

It was cloned from another SQL Server VM that was a member of the QoS Policy.

An administrator needs to make sure an RF3 cluster can survive a failure of two complete racks without negatively affecting performance. The current cluster configuration consists of the following:• 30 All Flash Nodes: distributed 10 nodes per rack across three 42U racks• Each node is configured with 20TB usable storage all flash (Cluster Total 600TB Usable)• Current cluster utilization is 500TB storage• Storage containers have Erasure Coding enabledWhich configuration changes should be made to make sure the cluster meets the requirements?

Expand the cluster to 60 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks

Expand the cluster to 50 nodes distributed evenly across 5 racks

Expand the cluster to 48 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks

Expand the cluster to 60 nodes distributed evenly across 6 racks

Expand the cluster to 40 nodes distributed evenly across 5 racks

An administrator is managing multiple Windows and Linux VMs connected to Nutanix Volumes. The Linux VMs are experiencing intermittent connectivity issues. The Windows VMs do not experience the same issue.Which option should the administrator use to resolve this issue?

Set the SCSI timeout value to 60

Add additional disks to the Volume Group

Set the SCSI timeout value to 60

Utilize a separate subnet for the Linux VMs

An administrator has two clusters: Site A and Site B.Async DR is configured between the clusters as follows:• Site A is the Primary Site• Site B is the Secondary inactive Site, no VMs running• Site A is fully in Production• Site B used as Backup/Disaster RecoveryThe customer wants to perform a planned failover between the sites.How should the administrator accomplish this?

Choose Migrate on the Primary site within the Data Protection Dashboard

Click Activate on the Secondary site within the Data Protection Dashboard

Click Activate on the Secondary site and run deactive NCLI command on Primary site

Choose Migrate on the Secondary site within the Data Protection Dashboard

Choose Migrate on the Primary site within the Data Protection Dashboard

Refer to the exhibit. After performing ESXi to AHV conversion on a cluster, the alerts shown in the exhibit display on Prism. What should the administrator do to resolve this issue efficiently?

Remove VMs from the Protection Domain and add them back in.

Remove the VMs. create a new Protection Domain, and add VMs to it

Remove VMs from the Protection Domain and add them back in.

Delete the Protection Domain, create a new Protection Domain, and add the VMs to it

Create a new Protection Domain and add the VMs to rt.

An administrator needs to initiate a new VDI project within a couple of months. Prism Central reports there are no storage resources to accommodate such workloads.The administrator sees many powered-off VMs and has the authority to delete test VMs powered off at least for 30 days. Test VMs belong to the Test category.Using Prism Central, which steps are required to identify the correct VMs to be deleted?

Filter VMs list, choose Test category and Inactive under Efficiency

Use Capacity Runway to filter by Test and Powered-off VMs

Filter VMs list, choose Test category and Inactive under Efficiency

Create a new Scenario selecting Test VMs. filter by uptime

Create a new Project selecting Test VMs, sorting by power state

Refer to the exhibit. User 1 and User 2 belong to the AAPM groupWhat are two descriptions of how Files perform quota management? (Choose two.)

User 1 can continue to add another 5GB file but will receive a daily notification email.

User 2 can add an 8GB file without receiving a notification email.

User 2 can continue to add another 3GB file but will receive a daily notification email.

User 1 can continue to add another 5GB file but will receive a daily notification email.

User 1 can add an 8GB file to the share without receiving notification.

User 2 can add an 8GB file without receiving a notification email.

A customer wants to run SAP HANA on a Nutanix cluster with the following characteristics:• AHV nodes• SAP HANA version 2• Production database filesWhich configuration should be recommended to the customer?

Do not enable compression, deduplication. or erasure coding on the storage container

Start with a cluster containing three or more nodes

Enable only compression for the container that contains the Production database

Do not enable compression, deduplication. or erasure coding on the storage container

Plate the SAP HANA Database on the same socket as CVM

An administrator knows that the disks in a cluster are out of date and a new firmware is available. For security reasons, these clusters do not have access to the Internet.Which two steps must be completed to update the firmware? (Choose two.)

Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.

Download a dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver.

Configure LCM with a URL to access the firmware bundle.

Download a dark site bundle and stage it on an internal webserver.

Download the updated firmware .tgz file from the Nutanix portal.

Select Upgrade Software, then select disks and upload the updated firmware.

A three-node cluster has a Nutanix Files instance with three FSVMs.What happens after a node failure?

The affected FSVM will be restarted on another node.

The affected FSVM will get live-migrated to another node.

The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its agent VM setting.

The affected FSVM will not be restarted on another node due to its VM-to-VM anti-affinity settings.

The affected FSVM will be restarted on another node.

A VDI environment based on AHV Cluster is not performing well. The current environment is using only one bridge (Bridge0). The administrator needs to verify if nodes are using all network cards associated to Bridge0.Which two menus should be used to check the current configuration? (Choose two.)

Network Configuration item in Settings menu

An administrator needs to create and start five new VMs for a Data Analytics Project (OLAP). The VM Profile is as follows:• vCPU:4• vRAM: 64 GB• vDisk: 1.5 TBEach of the four nodes of the Nutanix cluster has the following:• 24 vCPU. 20% overall usage• 192 GB RAM, 60% overall usage• 2xl920GBSSD• 4x 2 TB HDDAt cluster level, there is a single RF2 container that is 30% utilized and has an extent store capacity of 13.5 TB.Which component requires administrator attention?

Physical RAM, because it is not enough to power on all of the new VMs.

Physical Cores, because they are not enough to power on all of the new VMs.

Storage, because the capacity is not enough to create VMs.

Flash Tier because it is not enough to accommodate the workloads.

Refer to the exhibits.An administrator has reported that a new VM is not performing well. After analyzing the information presented in the exhibits, which option shows the best conclusion regarding this workload?

VM is Storage constrained, because the workload is waiting for storage access.

VM is CPU constrained since the hypervisor cannot provide the required resources.

VM is CPU constrained because more CPU needs to be added to the VM.

VM is Storage constrained, because the workload is waiting for storage access.

VM is not CPU constrained, because the VM is not running, a multithreaded application.

An administrator is notified that a bare metal database server is down. This database server is being served storage using a Nutanix Volume Group. Upon investigating, the administrator finds that the disks in the database server that map to the vDisks in the volume group have gone offline.What is causing this issue?

A CVM serving the Volume Group has gone offline.

The Volume Group Load Balancer has been disabled.

Port 9443 is blocked in the server firewall.

Port 3260 has been blocked in the server firewall.

A CVM serving the Volume Group has gone offline.

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator logs in to Prism and sees the status shown in the exhibit within the Hardware Diagram section.What should the administrator do?

Check status of applications running on the cluster and call support

Resolve all alerts and re-import the disks to make sure there is no service disruption.

Restart all CVMs for the cluster to check, confirm health and repartition and add the disks.

Reseat all disks immediately. If this does not help, reseat the nodes.

Check status of applications running on the cluster and call support

An administrator needs to migrate workloads from a Nutanix cluster running VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV. The migration process needs to be completed in multiple VM groups and support roll back in case any problems are found during user acceptance testing.Which action should the administrator perform?

Use Nutanix one-click cluster conversion from ESXi to AHV

Use Cross Hypervisor DR to replicate VMs from ESXi to AHV

Use Nutanix one-click cluster conversion from ESXi to AHV

An administrator needs to expand a cluster based on AHV and running on Nutanix G5 hardware with a new Nutanix G7 system. The cluster is running AOS 5.10 but the operation fails when expanding the cluster. AOS is running on the new system. There are no issues discovering the node.Why is the operation failing?

AOS version running on G7 is older than the version on the cluster.

Foundation software has not been updated on the cluster.

G7 hardware cannot be added to a G5 cluster.

EVC needs to be configured before cluster expansion

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is commissioning a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Once the user VMs have been deployed and are running, the administrator finds that VMs on the same host are able to communicate, but are unable to communicate between hosts.What must be changed to enable full inter-VM communications?

Update the switch to specifically allow VLAN 15

Change the network the VMs are connected to

Change the spanning-tree port type on the switch

The VMs need to have static IP addresses

Update the switch to specifically allow VLAN 15

An administrator is deploying Nutanix Files 3.5 and needs to configure the sizing of the FSVMs for an increased number of concurrent SMB connections over the default 750.What should the administrator do?

During installation, click Customize on the File Server Installation screen, change the number of connections, and finish the installation

Deploy the Files VMs. power down the three FSVMs. change the CPU and RAM via Prism, and then power the three FSVMs back up

During installation, click Customize on the File Server Installation screen, change the number of connections, and finish the installation

Complete the default installation change the CPU and RAM m Prism, and then log into the File Server dashboard and change the Filer Server Properties

During installation, input the correct number of connections in the File Server Installation screen and complete the installation

An administrator receives a notification that storage in a Nutanix cluster is unavailable. The cluster consists of five nodes and is configured with a Fault-Tolerance level of 1 (FT-1).Upon investigation, the administrator finds the following:• All AHV hosts are powered on and the CVMs are running• Nodes A, B, and C are connected to one top of rack switch• Nodes D and E are connected to a second top of rack switch• The cluster status command run on Node A shows that CVM services on nodes D and E are down Which issue is causing the storage outage?

The switch connecting Nodes D and E is down.

The default gateway for the CVMs and AHV hosts is down.

The switch connecting Nodes D and E is down.

The genesis process is down on both Nodes D and E.

Nodes D and E are in maintenance mode.

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator notices a critical alert on the Metro Availability Protection Domain What is causing this alert?

Metro Availability Protection domain is active on the remote site.

VMware Site Recovery Manager is handling a failover event

Metro Availability did not fail over and caused an outage.

vSphere moved VMs to the remote container, and the VMs must be moved back.

An administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support a few high-performance VMs.This deployment will have the following considerations:• Individual VMs will likely generate network throughputs in the range of 90-100Mbps• Due to the configuration of the VMs, it is unlikely that a node will host more than one or two of them at a time• Individual VMs will communicate with only a few (one or two) remote hosts at a time• Multicast will not be used in the environment• The hosts are connected via two 1GbE network connectionsHow should the administrator configure the network bonds to meet this requirement while maintaining the simplest switch configuration?

Configure bond0 as active-backup

Configure bond0 as balance-lacp

An administrator needs to replace an aging SAN and move to a hyper-converged infrastructure. The existing environment consists of the following hosts that are connected to the SAN:• 5xAIX hosts• 3x Hyper-V hosts• 9xESXi hosts• 2x physical SQL Clusters (Windows Server 2012R2 hosts)After deploying a Nutanix AHV cluster, which two actions should the administrator take to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

Deploy Volumes to support the AIX and SQL workloads.

Migrate the ESXi and Hyper-V workloads using Move.

Deploy Volumes to support the AIX and SQL workloads.

Migrate the ESXI workloads to AHV using Move.

Deploy Files to support the AIX hosts.

Migrate the ESXi and Hyper-V workloads using Move.

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator creates a security policy that isolates their financial application from accessing the Internet When viewing the policy in Prism Central, several connections from the application are outbound to the Internet.What is causing this issue with the policy?

The policy has been left in monitor mode instead of enforcing mode.

The 0.0.0.0 address was not specified in the outbound rule.

The blocked connections are illustrated for information only.

The Activate box was not checked in the rule, so it is not enforcing.

The policy has been left in monitor mode instead of enforcing mode.

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